The Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Butler Center, will honor the 2013 Distinguished Women Scholars as part of a campus celebration at 3:00 p.m., March 1, in the Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118.

"By recognizing our academic women of distinction, we also acknowledge and celebrate our faculty's contributions to mentoring these successful scholars and recognize Purdue's contribution to diversifying university faculty across the nation," says Beverly Davenport Sypher, vice provost for faculty affairs and the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center Chair for Leadership Excellence. "At the same time, we symbolize to our undergraduate and graduate students the possibilities a Purdue doctorate enables. We hope the recipients will be role models to all of our scholars in the making."